ARGENTINA: Cold Comfort

It was freezing in Buenos Aires last week,
but no colder than the chances that Argentina would act against the
Axis:
> Liberal, hemisphere-minded President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz,
after two years of increasing blindness from diabetes, at last resigned
his office. This left the job to conservative Acting President Ramon S
(for nothing) Castillo, whose neutrality quivers with Axis-sounding
overtones.

> Germany blundered into torpedoing another Argentine freighter. But
it was almost a foregone conclusion that the Nazis would get off with
little more than the "profound regret" they had expressed for
the Victoria, sunk last April.